February 2019
Time Traveller's Guide to Accessibility Mechanics
For a long time, HTML gave us all the semantics and
other goodies we needed to make things work properly on the web. Then we started
inventing new UI components, and now we use ARIA and Javascript to polyfill
the missing bits. As we move towards a future of Web Components, the time has
come to invent another solution that will let us encapsulate accessibility in
the shadow DOM - and its called the Accessibility Object Model (AOM).
